Though I prefer this exchange, to be honest:
From a movie that definitely doesn’t qualify for this thread. 
OK, come on, what movie was that?
Dan
I came in to mention GWTW. Even the so called nice people thought it was okay to OWN people. I did kind of like Belle Watling, but her role was so small.
If you read the book you’d like Melanie even less than in the movie. She thought it was fine that Scarlett offered Ashley a job, because then they wouldn’t have to move north, and her kid wouldn’t have to go to school with “pickaninnies.”
Any movie where Harvey Keitel is considered to be the ''most likeable" of the characters (i.e. “Reservoir Dogs”) probably qualifies for this thread.
Oo, also “Taxi Driver”.
“Miller’s Crossing” is the first movie I thought of in connnection with the OP.
Thee seems to be a lot of confusing [this person did bad things] with [this person is unlikable] in this thread.
I’m surprised Payback isn’t in the responses.
I think the only three people who weren’t despicable human beings were the pickpocket victim, the pawn shop clerk, and the waiter apologizing for the rejected credit card. Even the bartender was a self-absorbed prick.
–G!
Pretty much everyone in Uncut Gems, except maybe Adam Sandler’s girlfriend.
Mr. Orange was a likable guy.
And Ewan Bremner’s character is hugely flawed but also hugely likable. The main character’s parents are doing their very best and not doing too bad, considering. The guy who dies of AIDS is just an ordinary bloke. Almost everyone in it is likeable except Begbie.
Starring Rip Torn?
The Clooney version of Ocean’s Eleven.
I agree, for example I found Leonard in Memento very likeable even though he set himself up to continually murder drug dealers named John G (or sometimes James G). He seems quite likeable in his conversations with people that he’s not being attacked by.
The Room. No character in this movie is even remotely close to likeable. But I only “like” this movie because it is so incredibly cringeworthy. It is so cringeworthy that I have never been able to watch it continuously from beginning to end. I have to stop and rest about every 10 minutes or so.
The Beguiled
Eastwood is, ostensibly, the victim here, but he’s none too likable while he’s working his way through the ladies of the school, IYKWIM.
Mike Leigh’s “Career Girrls”
“Broken Vessels”
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days "
“The Boys” 1998 Australia
He’s about likeable right up to when he’s done singing so…1:22 into the movie.
That was brilliant. I just about bust a gut at the expression of Brad Pitt’s character, slurping at his soda with that straw in his mouth.
(Sorry, don’t know how to “multi-quote.”) American Beauty was mentioned upthread. The daughter and her boyfriend next door seemed likable, given their age and circumstances.
How about Citizen Kane? I don’t remember any likable characters, although it’s been a while since I last watched it.
Just watched it: The Favourite.
Hmmm?! What?!
I’m thinking of the 1999 Mel Gibson flick based on a Donald E. Westlake novel called The Hunter.
And, while I normally like Director’s Cuts better, I found I prefer the theatrical edition better.
My friends and I liked it because Lucy Liu steals the show as Pearl. But while I certainly have no dislike of dominatrices or BDSM (quite the contrary!) Pearl’s unlikable flaw is that she just doesn’t know when to stop being an abusive bitch.
–G!
It just occurred to me that Val probably learned about the Chows from Pearl.